[AndyJK]

The Queen is our country's Head Of State acting on behalf of our elected Government and has worked tirelessly for over 50 years well into her retirement.

For people to say the Monarch does nothing shows a lot of ignorance at what the role of our Head Of State. If you want to get rid of the Monarchy and replace it with a President (with Britain becoming a republic), then I'd like to draw you to the problems in France where Jacques Chirac won just 18% of the vote in the first round of the French Presidential elections on a turnout of around 50%. Hardly a resounding mandate from people. Yet astonishingly Chirac made the final ballet to face an extreme Fascist called Le Penn in the final race to become French President. It was a case of better the devil you know then the devil you don't as millions of French people turned out in droves to vote for somebody they didn't want (Chric) to stop the extremist (Le Penn) gaining power. Now Chirac is in power for 5 years with no way of deposing him while he hires and fires his country's Prime Minister.

I like our Monarchy because they are inexpensive (66p or something a year per taxpayer) and give our country some identity. Bear in mind this country has been governed by a Monarchy for centuries and kept us free from invasion during some very dark periods of European imperialism slicing up the New World. If its not broken dont fix it. Whatever you replace the Monarchy with will be no better, so whatever part of the UK you're from be proud of what we have and stop knocking it.